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Festival de Jerez 2018 »
Córdoba 2018

Guadalquivir River near flood stage

Pretty windy on the Old Roman Bridge

In the mezquita

In the mezquita the light coming through this old screen made nice silhouettes

Dome in the mezquita

Detail of the dome

Portion of large bas-relief

Design on gate to chapel

Interesting crucifixion sculpture by Teno

Column and arch perspective

Intricate Moorish design co-opted by the Christians

Look carefully: there are many layers

Search for the skull

Another interesting crucifixion

This old fresco showed up better in the image than to my bare eyes

Restoration work, even at a small scale, is constant.

More arches

Look at all the design elements

Everything was being cleaned for Santa Semana (Holy Week)

The main dome over the altar

Detail from the dome

Christian symbols in Moorish arch

More arches and columns

Why anyone would think a display of relics like this is a good idea is beyond me.

Isn't this an interesting picture of the ceiling?

The bell tower

This ancient stone is covered with symbols and pictographs

In this detail, we saw elements from petroglyphs in New Mexico

Statue of a Roman athlete, possibly copied from a Greek statue

Reproduction of statue of Aphrodite

I was taken by the clearly hand-made nature of the work; no stamps or rigid design

Two statues from a piece called The Annunciation

Local excavations often find caches of old coins.

The coins were hidden for safe-keeping, but the owners never reclaimed them

Mosaic from Roman house in Córdoba

Two-faced Herma; Jupiter and Juno

Chess pieces from the 10th century. They are Moorish.

There is an old Roman auditorium under this plaza in front of the Archaeological Museum.

We saw flamenco at El Cardenal

The cantaora was good

The guitarra was better than good

Dancing to a Garrotin (one of lines in the song is "Pregunta mi sombrero" which is "Ask my hat.")

There was enough light to capture some footwork.

Using a manton (shawl)

Capturing motion

Capturing motion

This bailaor was good

His feet were fast, but not as fast as Antonio Granjero

Fin de Fiesta

At the closing (Fin de Fiesta) everyone takes a short turn.

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